Gidday!

I'm proud to announce:

	man-pages-6.20 - manual pages for GNU+Linux


Tarball download:
<https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/>
Git repository:
<https://git.kernel.org/cgit/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/>
Online PDF book:
<https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/book/>

Thanks to all the contributors to this release (in BCC)!
And thanks to our sponsors!

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	Google               <https://opensource.google/>
	Meta                 <https://www.meta.com/>


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==================== NEWS =========================================

We have a new script which is installed as part of 'make install-bin':
git-bisect-rebase(1).  A few people have already experimented with it,
and they're all delighted.  It helps rebase very old branches over
thousands of upstream commits without pain.

I'm working to get it merged in the git.git project, and they seemed
receptive to it, but for a while it will stay here, so that it becomes
useful to users before it becomes part of git.git.


==================== Linux Software Map ===========================

Begin4
Title:          Linux man-pages
Version:        6.20
Entered-date:   2026-10-21
Description:    Manual pages for GNU+Linux.  This package contains
                manual pages for sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7, and
                subsections of those.  Only a few pages are provided in
                sections 1, 6, and 8, and none in 9.
Keywords:       man pages
Maintained-by:  Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Primary-site:   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages
                2.7M  man-pages-6.20.tar.gz
Copying-policy: several; the pages are all freely distributable as long as
                nroff source is provided
End


==================== Changes in man-pages-6.20 ====================

Released: 2026-10-21, Dongo

New and rewritten pages
-----------------------

man1/
	git-bisect-rebase.1

man2type/
	file_attr.2type

man5/
	proc_sys_fs_inotify.5			(split from proc_sys_fs(5))
	sys_block.5				(previously, sysfs(5))
	sys_bus.5				(previously, sysfs(5))
	sys_class.5				(previously, sysfs(5))
	sys_class_net.5				(previously, sysfs(5))
	sys_dev.5				(previously, sysfs(5))
	sys_devices.5				(previously, sysfs(5))
	sys_firmware.5				(previously, sysfs(5))
	sys_fs.5				(previously, sysfs(5))
	sys_fs_cgroup.5				(previously, sysfs(5))
	sys_fs_smackfs.5			(previously, sysfs(5))
	sys_hypervisor.5			(previously, sysfs(5))
	sys_kernel.5				(previously, sysfs(5))
	sys_kernel_cgroup.5			(previously, sysfs(5))
	sys_kernel_debug.5			(previously, sysfs(5))
	sys_kernel_mm.5				(previously, sysfs(5))
	sys_module.5				(previously, sysfs(5))
	sys_power.5				(previously, sysfs(5))
	sysfs.5					(split into many pages)


Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------

man1/
	diffman-git.1
		--

man2/
	fallocate.2
		FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES

man*/
	landlock*.?
		LANDLOCK_ADD_RULE_QUIET


New and changed links
---------------------

man5/
	proc_pid_smaps_rollup.5			(proc_pid_smaps(5))


Global changes
--------------

-  share/mk/
   -  Improve portability to systems without gcc(1).
   -  Allow printing the commands with make(1)'s --no-silent.
-  src/bin/
   -  git-bisect-rebase: Add program.


Changes to individual files
---------------------------

The manual pages and other files in the repository have been improved
beyond what this changelog covers.  To learn more about changes applied
to individual pages, or the authors of changes, use git(1).




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